Special Session to Redraw the State’s Congressional District Map

On Monday, House Speaker Will Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz, called a special session to redraw the state’s congressional district map. The session will begin at noon on Thursday, August 7.

In a ruling issued last Friday, Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, declared the state’s current congressional map to be illegal. Lewis ruled the Legislature has until Aug. 15 to fix the map. Legislators will meet to draw a new map that fixes two districts that the judge declared invalid. One district stretches from Jacksonville to Orlando, while the other is in central Florida.

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